TECUMSEH — In order to make its business and technology campus more attractive to potential occupants, the Tecumseh City Council on Monday unanimously approved allowing some industrial uses in the campus.

The city’s planning commission recommended allowing some industrial development in the Tecumseh Business and Technology Campus. The change makes the campus even more attractive to business looking to build, said Paula Holtz, Tecumseh economic development director.

“With the leads we are receiving, this will give us more flexibility for the property,” she said. “We don’t want to limit ourselves. This will not change any of our attraction efforts.”

The changes allow the city to keep some control over development of property in the campus, located next to Van-Rob Tecumseh on East Chicago Boulevard, city manager Kevin Welch said. The campus has access from Chicago Boulevard and from Billmeyer Highway.

“We are seeing leads that have industrial (uses) attached to them,” he said. “This gives us a lot more options. It is better to change it now so prospective customers don’t have to go through a long process to change it.”

The original intent of the campus was to place technology-based, degree-oriented jobs and not manufacturing jobs, Bob Fox, chairman of the planning commission said at the October meeting. At that meeting, the planning commission recommended the changes.

At the meeting, planning commission member David Malmquist said after driving by the park for 10 years and seeing no activity, he felt it was time to expand the capabilities and look at other types of manufacturing and services that could come to the park.